Blanket shortage weakens Salmond’s health claims

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Alex Salmond was forced to apologise to a great-great-grandmother who spent three nights shivering in hospital because she had no blankets.

Helen Macbeth, 92, had to wrap herself in a dressing gown in her bed after nurses told her that there were no blankets. Another patient, Jack Barr, 65, resorted to using a beach towel.

Johann Lamont, the Labour leader, raised their cases at Holyrood — and blindsided the First Minister by telling him that both were in the gallery. Mr Salmond had just suggested that Labour were spreading “scare stories”.